When hackers attack

Jon Honeyball tells the tale of a spy who came in with the cold.

OPINION | ONE MORE THING It seemed innocent enough. The air-conditioning system needed its annual service. This was never particularly onerous – check the pressure levels, clean the air filters, give it a good spray of some suitably pungent smelling gloop. Move on to the next one. “It was clear that the scope of the data exfiltration was all-encompassing. And the actions of the competitor, by being ahead of every move they took, was quite a smoking gun.” It was only a few months later that strange things started to happen. Quotations to established clients weren’t turning into orders. A surprise, but perhaps that’s just the economy. But when that usual big quarterly order didn’t materialise, it was time to phone the client to ask what had happened. It seems…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2023

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